hey therefore are no judges because for a philosopher analyzes a problem in the value of life is an objection to him, therefore both Plato and Socrates were decadents and not wise at all.
Socrates in particular, belonged to the lowest class according to Nietzsche. His reasons for feeling is way are as follows: First of all he was ugly, and the typical criminal is ugly therefore Socrates was a criminal and a "Swindler of the mind", Socrates' decadence suggest anarchy towards the instincts, virtue and happiness is also opposed to all the instincts. Nietzsche also believed that with Socrates " a noble taste vanquished with his dialects." Because before Socrates dialectic manners were considered bad and compromising, and that the dialectician "makes one furious and helpless at the same time". He also thought that Socrates turned reason into something that could give him power over the people of Athens, by saying that reason, virtue,
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